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Scrap CAP? It Could Happen

Updated Dec. 6, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

By Bret Stephens. Mr. Stephens edits the State of the Union column.

A little more than a year ago -- before mad-cow disease spread from Britain to the Continent, foot-and-mouth disease arrived on wing&eacute;d feet from Zimbabwe, wide swaths of the British and Irish countryside were cordoned off, perfectly healthy livestock were cremated en masse and farmers began committing suicide in disproportionate numbers -- this newspaper...